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Speeding up UMAP plots for single cell gene expression analysis

data visualization

bioinformatics

Analyzing single cell data often requires visualizing thousands to millions of data point on a graph. Current R packages such as Seurat::DimPlot are limited by long plotting…

Oct 21, 2025

7 min

2025 Posit Plotnine and Great Tables Contest Submission

data visualization

bioinformatics

My submissions to the 2025 plotnine and table contests: exploring the uncertain canadian job market with plotnine, and visualizing multiple sequence alignment with gt

Oct 3, 2025

2 min

Programmatically creating tabsets in R

quarto

I recently was working on a web app and encountered a situation where I wanted to create tabs based on some variable in a data frame. The tab names and content would change…

Mar 28, 2025

4 min

Making a Twitter Bot in the Year 2024

shiny

Except, because it is 2024, using Twitter is uncool, so what I actually did instead was, I made a Mastodon Bot. It’s powered by github actions, meaning everyday it…

Jun 12, 2024

3 min

Quickly reading 1 gene at a time from single cell data

bioinformatics

“Can you check gene x for me?” says every scientist I ever did RNAseq analysis for.

Feb 24, 2024

1 min

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Speeding up UMAP plots for single cell gene expression analysis

2025 Posit Plotnine and Great Tables Contest Submission

Programmatically creating tabsets in R

Making a Twitter Bot in the Year 2024

Quickly reading 1 gene at a time from single cell data